Datin'

Dizzy like children on a merry-go-roundGrown-ups are the biggest kids I've foundYou'd think they belong in a baby carriageThey're doing things that lead to marriageBut don't you laugh at what they do, oh no'Cause some day you'll be datin' too

Datin' makes a guy comb his hair just rightHis girl can mess it up when they kiss good-nightDatin' makes you quarrel and say you'll break upAnd just because it's so much fun to make up

Children can't wait to grow up but thenThey're datin and they're acting like kids againYou'd think they belong in a baby carriageThey're doing things that lead to marriageBut don't you laugh at what they do, oh noSome day you'll be datin' too

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Terrible song,senseless movie and dire soundtrack appart from a couple of songs. I blame Elvis for the material.I find it very difficult to believe that a star of his magnitude couldn't demand bettter and receive better too, The guy wasn't a wimp and an imbecile, he was an intelligent man with over ten years in the business by this time.What the hell was he doing putting up with this s***?

Should have stayed in the confines of the film as it completely loses its way out of that environment. Yes money usually speaks louder than anything else, and so our boy went along with the sham and picked up another nice wad of cash. We on this site worry about it more than he ever did.

Elvis built himself a whole new fanbase through these sugary movies, kids, housewives, grannies etc, all buying the albums and going to the cinema. Elvis took a $million dollars for a lot of the movies plus a box office %, kerrrchinggggg! You can't knock the maths on this and as a business model it's faultless, Shame about the artisitic impression though. I actully like this song, I don't know why 'cause I shouldn't, and the outtake too. I'll keep taking the pills and maybe I'll recover soon. come on everyone has a song they know they shouldn't like but secretly they do.... don't they?

Crap in, crap out... I actually like this song and the actual soundtrack; it is a far cry from the man I knew in the 1950's growing up and the material he sang. The Colonel and Elvis himself, for going along with the movie hoax is really sad... He could have told the Colonel no, but money speaks louder than common sense at times.

Poor song from his weakest soundtrack album. PHS was a disaster and probably killed his movie career, amazing that it still took another two years after the release of PHS to realize it was over and the NBC TV Special was taped.

A passable track due to Elvis actually coming alive at the "Paradise, Hawaiian Style" sessions on this one. His voice is strong and he does the best with what is nothing more than a "kiddie" song. The song fits the scene in the movie, but on record it looses any luster after a couple of listenings. I give it 1 1/2 stars, maybe two.

People often forget, about the songs for what the where recorded. this one was recorded for a movie and fit in well in this movie. I love watching the movies and all the songs in the movies. For me it was MTV long before MTV was born. Datin was a nice, funny song with a true strong voice of Elvis. I like the recording of it when he starts laughing loud

Listening to Elvis during those soundtrack sessions one can clearly hear how Elvis himself thought about the whole thing. But, I admire him for pulling it through time after time. That said I still like to listen to This Is My Heaven and Sand Castles from this album. I think it's not fair to compare Elvis' 60's soundtracks to anything else but themselves!

I just wonder how Hal Wallis felt, after having done stuff like King Creole and now he was doing this. This song comes right after Dominic in the worst song ever charts. too bad but didn't he once say, they would do stuff like that as long as they are having fun with it?